GEOCITY: a computer model for systems analysis of geothermal district heating and cooling costs

Conference · Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5791056

Fassbender, L L; Bloomster, C H

GEOCITY is a computer-simulation model developed to study the economics of district heating/cooling using geothermal energy. GEOCITY calculates the cost of district heating/cooling based on climate, population, resource characteristics, and financing conditions. The basis for our geothermal-energy cost analysis is the unit cost of energy which will recover all the costs of production. The calculation of the unit cost of energy is based on life-cycle costing and discounted-cash-flow analysis. A wide variation can be expected in the range of potential geothermal district heating and cooling costs. The range of costs is determined by the characteristics of the resource, the characteristics of the demand, and the distance separating the resource and the demand. GEOCITY is a useful tool for estimating costs for each of the main parts of the production process and for determining the sensitivity of these costs to several significant parameters under a consistent set of assumptions.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 5791056
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-9602; CONF-820112-12; ON: DE83015430
• Resource Relation: Conference: Semi-annual meeting of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers, Houston, TX, USA, 24 Jan 1982
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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15 GEOTHERMAL ENERGY
COMPUTER CODES
G CODES
GEOTHERMAL AIR CONDITIONING
COST
GEOTHERMAL DISTRICT HEATING
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES
LIFE-CYCLE COST
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
AIR CONDITIONING
DISTRICT HEATING
GEOTHERMAL HEATING
HEATING
RESOURCES
SIMULATION
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